Kunbuntu 7.10 Beta ubiquity installer freezes at 87%

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This bug is on purpose a duplicate of Bug #145743 which was reported by another used on September 27, and to which I added confirmation and comments on October 6, but which didn't receive any further feedback or answer yet, so I would like to make it more visible at it looks release-critical to me. Sorry for the duplicate...

Tried to install Kubuntu 7.10 Beta from CD 4 times on 2 rather standard machines (one laptop, one desktop, different architectures, different network connections, on a different day ;-)

* The laptop completely from scratch (manually partitioning all disk, no other OS left)
* The desktop having a Winsomething on it, manually partitioned keeping Windows.

* Installing in French, standard installation. Everytime the install froze completely at exactly 87%, last thing that got displayed was "Downloading languages packs" which actually seemed to download files, but then the installation sat there with ubiquity eating 100% CPU for hours (I let it sit there a complete night to check if something might happen in the end, but it didn't...) with no message at all, no way to go beyond this except killing install, so I had to revert back to installing 7.04 feisty on those 2 machines.

* I had controlled that the network connections for these 2 machines were actually up and properly running.

This looks like a show-stopper to me, 5 days before the planned release date. Wouldn't be nice releasing a version that won't install on machines that aren't specially new or whatever...

[Albert Damen (albrt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It looks like your problem may be related to bug 145012, which was solved recently. Could you please try to do the installation using the Release Candidate CD an report if that works correctly?
Many thanks in advance.

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

Le samedi 13 octobre 2007, albert a écrit :
> It looks like your problem may be related to bug 145012, which was solved
> recently. Could you please try to do the installation using the Release
> Candidate CD an report if that works correctly?

Thanks Albert for your reply. Reading bug 145012 comments, I feel it's indeed
the same bug, so hopefully fixed.

I'm sorry I dont' currently have any spare machine on which I could try with
the RC CD, but I'm confident that the bug is most probably fixed :-)

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[Albert Damen (albrt)]

Thanks for your response. I will mark this bug as fixed released for now.
Please feel free to re-open it (set status to new) in case you might find the problem was not solved after all.